The Battle of Blair Mountain: Erotica by Dena Hankins, #6

By Dena Hankins

Not all conflicts pitted nation against nation. Soon after WWI, in 1921, the United States saw its largest armed rebellion since the Civil War, when miners fighting to unionize in West Virginia bravely faced local, state, and even U.S. Army forces and bombings by U.S. Government planes. Some strong women worked in those mines, alongside what men were left after WWI, and in "The Battle of Blair Mountain" Dena Hankins shows us two unforgettable characters, mountain-wise and gun-savvy, taking what scant cover they can find from the bombing, and what fierce distraction they can find with each other.  -Sacchi Green, editor of Thunder of War, Lightning of Desire

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dena Hankins
• Release date: Feb 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224869091

Dena Hankins

Dena writes aboard her sailboat, preferably in a quiet anchorage. A queer, poly, kinky former sex educator, she knows that the sexy bits can be the best parts! Wanderlust is her waking state. Since 1999, she has sailed the World Ocean from Seattle to San Francisco, across to Hawaii; from Maine to Key West; across to Bermuda and the Azores. Whether traveling in the physical world or ranging far in her imagination, she is happiest accompanied by her partner since 1996, James Lane.

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The Battle of Blair Mountain

Erotica by Dena Hankins, Volume 6

Dena Hankins

Published by Dena Hankins, 2024.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

THE BATTLE OF BLAIR MOUNTAIN

First edition. February 3, 2024.

Copyright © 2024 Dena Hankins.

Written by Dena Hankins.

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

The Battle of Blair Mountain | by Dena Hankins

Also By Dena Hankins

About the Author

To James, who put The People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, in my hands and who has been with me in sorrow, anger, and occasionally even triumph over the plight of workers.

Cover photo credit: James Lane, 2010

The Battle of Blair Mountain

by Dena Hankins

SueLynn shifted her rifle off her collarbone and climbed the hill with the agility of long practice. This wasn’t her mountain, but it was her mountain range. She knew how to move over ground covered with leaves, springy and rotting and full of life. She headed for a rock outcropping to see the next holler.

SueLynn wore boots and britches like the men, shot game and cussed and drank like the men too. When they had limped home after the Great War, they hadn’t been too terribly surprised to hear told she’d gone down in the mines while they were gone.

She leaned against the rock, scanning the holler and the hill beyond for Chafin’s gun-thug deputies.

Only days before, the miners had been heading on home like Bill Blizzard said, though he was no coward and wanted to fight. With the President himself sending federals against them, well, it looked like Logan and Mingo Counties weren’t getting unionized just then.

Sheriff Chafin couldn’t let well enough alone. He’d put together his private army,